outskirts是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (尤指城市) 郊区，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He nodded and gurgled in brief smothering sleep; he sprawled on the seat and talked with friendly fellow vagrants; he drank bitter coffee and ate enormously of buckwheat cakes at a station restaurant; and so, changing at anonymous towns, he came at last to the squatty shelters, the two wheat-elevators, the cattle-pen, the oil-tank, and the red box of a station with its slushy platform, which composed the outskirts of Wheatsylvania.
-- There was no more sanitary and efficient dairy in Iowa than that of old Klopchuk, on the outskirts of Nautilus.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occupied thus, with eyes stretched afar, Oak gradually perceived that what he had previously taken to be a star low down behind the outskirts of the plantation was in reality no such thing.
-- OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS SNOW A MEETINGFor dreariness nothing could surpass a prospect in the outskirts of a certain town and military station, many miles north of Weatherbury, at a later hour on this same snowy evening if that may be called a prospect of which the chief constituent was darkness.
-- The outskirts of this level water-meadow were diversified by rounded and hollow pastures, where just now every flower that was not a buttercup was a daisy.
-- At this time the July preceding the September in which we find at Greenhill Fair he fell in with a travelling circus which was performing in the outskirts of a northern town.
-- Troy hastily shifted his position, after having recognized in the scrutineer the knavish bailiff Pennyways, his wife's sworn enemy, who still hung about the outskirts of Weatherbury.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the outskirts of town were the remount depots where horses and mules milled about in largecorrals, and along side streets were the hospitals.
-- There was a movement on the outskirts of the crowd and those on foot gave way as Rhett Butler carefully edgedhis horse toward Aunt Pitty's carriage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quieter and less timid than their cousins of the north, they did not, like them, place sentinels round the outskirts of their encampment.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers: 'Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears were invaded by the sound of music.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo pointed, and Laurie sat up to examine, for through an opening in the wood one could look cross the wide, blue river, the meadows on the other side, far over the outskirts of the great city, to the green hills that rose to meet the sky.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As is customary in those cases, the boats at once separated, each making for some one lone whale on the outskirts of the shoal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XIV AT PORT STOWE Ten o'clock the next morning found Mr. Marvel, unshaven, dirty, and travel-stained, sitting with the books beside him and his hands deep in his pockets, looking very weary, nervous, and uncomfortable, and inflating his cheeks at infrequent intervals, on the bench outside a little inn on the outskirts of Port Stowe.
-- And it had, though no man had traced it, invariably ended its mysterious flight in the pocket of that agitated gentleman in the obsolete silk hat, sitting outside the little inn on the outskirts of Port Stowe.
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